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| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name         = The Earl of Cromartie
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| image        = File:Arms_of_the_Earl_of_Cromartie.svg
| caption      = ''Cromartie Coat of Arms''
| birth_name   = Francis Sutherland-Leveson-Gower
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1852|11|24|df=yes}}
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| death_date   = {{death date and age|1893|11|24|1852|11|24|df=yes}}
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| spouse       = {{marriage|Hon. Lillian Janet Bosville-Macdonald<br />|2 August 1876}}
| children     = [[Sibell Blunt-Mackenzie, 3rd Countess of Cromartie]]<br />[[Constance Stewart-Richardson]]
| relations    = [[Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland]] (brother)<br />[[Roderick Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Cromartie]] (grandson)
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'''Francis Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Cromartie''' (''[[né]]'' '''Francis Sutherland-Leveson-Gower''') (3 August 1852 – 24 November 1893) was a [[British peer]].<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page=977 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>
==Early life==
Francis was born on 3 August 1852 as the third son of [[George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland]] and [[Anne Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland|Anne, Duchess of Sutherland]]. His elder surviving brother was [[Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland]].<ref name="EarlCromartie"/> He had two sisters, Lady Florence Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (the wife of [[Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin]]), and Lady Alexandra Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, who died unmarried in 1891.<ref name="DukeSutherland">{{cite web |title=Sutherland, Duke of (UK, 1833) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/sutherland1833.htm#SUTHERLAND_1833_3 |website=cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=22 September 2020}}</ref>
His father was the eldest son of [[George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland]] and the former [[Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland|Lady Harriett Howard]] (the third daughter of [[George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle]] and [[Georgiana Howard, Countess of Carlisle|Lady Georgiana Cavendish]], eldest daughter of [[William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire]]).<ref name="DukeSutherland"/> His mother was the only daughter of John Hay-Mackenzie of Newhall and Cromarty (the younger brother of [[George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale]]) and the former Anne Craig (the third daughter of [[Sir James Gibson-Craig, 1st Baronet]]).<ref name="EarlCromartie"/> She was the great-great-granddaughter of [[George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie]] who took part in the [[Jacobite rising]] of 1745 and was [[attainder|attainted]] in 1746).<ref name="EarlCromartie"/>
==Career==
Upon the death of his mother on 25 November 1888, he succeeded to the titles of 2nd [[Baron Castlehaven]], of Castlehaven, 2nd [[Viscount Tarbat]], of Tarbat, 2nd [[Baron Macleod]] of [[Castle Leod]], and 2nd [[Earl of Cromartie]] on 25 November 1888. In 1879, Blunt-Mackenzie was recognised as Chief of the Clan Mackenzie by Lord Lyon.<ref name="EarlCromartie"/> The seat of the Earls of Cromartie is [[Castle Leod]], [[Strathpeffer]], [[Ross-shire]].<ref name="burke"/>
==Personal life==
On 2 August 1876, Lord Francis was married to the Hon. Lillian Janet Bosville-Macdonald, the third surviving daughter of [[Baron Macdonald|Godfrey Bosville-Macdonald, 4th Baron Macdonald]] and the former Maria Anne Wyndham (daughter and co-heiress of George Thomas Wyndham of [[Cromer Hall]], [[Norfolk]]). Her aunt, Cecilia Wyndham, was the wife of [[Lord Alfred Paget]] (the sixth son of [[Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey]]).<ref name="Walford1860">{{cite book |last1=Walford |first1=Edward |title=The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland |date=1860 |publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company |page=326 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TuHIDwAAQBAJ&dq=Francis+Mackenzie,+2nd+Earl+of+Cromartie&pg=PA326 |access-date=23 September 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Together, they were the parents of two daughters:<ref name="EarlCromartie"/>
* [[Sibell Blunt-Mackenzie, 3rd Countess of Cromartie|Lady Sibell Lilian Mackenzie]], ''[[suo jure]]'' [[Countess of Cromartie]], who married Lt.-Col. Edward Walter Blunt [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]], the eldest son of [[Major general|Maj.-Gen.]] Charles Harris [[Blunt baronets|Blunt]] of [[Adderbury]] Manor (the grandson of Walter Blunt, a younger son of [[Blunt baronets|Sir Henry Blunt, 2nd Baronet]]) and the former Mary Augusta Tod (a daughter of Col. [[James Tod]], an officer of the [[British East India Company]]).<ref name="EarlCromartie"/>
* [[Constance Stewart-Richardson|Lady Constance Mackenzie]], who married [[Stewart-Richardson baronets|Sir Edward Stewart-Richardson, 15th Baronet]],<ref name="1904Wedding">{{cite news |title=LADY CONSTANCE MARRIED.; Athletic Englishwoman, Known in This Country, Weds Sir Edward Richardson. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/04/20/archives/lady-constance-married-athletic-englishwoman-known-in-this-country.html |access-date=22 September 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=20 April 1904}}</ref> and was known for her semi-clad dancing for the "shilling seats" of theatres in 1910 which incurred the displeasure of [[Edward VII]], who considered it unsuitable behaviour for a noblewoman, leading her to be barred from [[Royal court|Court]].<ref>''A Cat May Look At A King'', Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb 1910, p55</ref><ref name="LadyRichardson1932">{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special Cable to THE NEW YORK |title=NOTED HUNTRESS OF BIG GAME DIES; Lady Constance Richardson Once Caused Stir Here as Scantily Clad Dancer. AIDED CHARITY AT SHERRY'S Later Appeared In Vaudeville -- Hunted on Three Continents -- Daughter of Earl of Cromartle. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/11/25/archives/noted-huntress-of-big-game-dies-lady-constance-richardson-once.html |access-date=22 September 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 November 1932}}</ref>
Lord Cromartie died on 24 November 1893.<ref name="EarlCromartie">{{cite web |title=Cromartie, Earl of (UK, 1861) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/cromartie1861.htm |website=cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=22 September 2020}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=TuHIDwAAQBAJ The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland]'' (1860), Dalcassian Publishing Company.
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